Chenille-cutting machine



W. T. SMITH. OHENILLE CUTTING MACHINE.

Patented Nov. 8, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT (DFF CE.

\VILLIAM T. SMITH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHENlLLE-CUTTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,777, dated November 8, 1892.

Application filed June 14, 1892. Serial No. 436,755. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM '1. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chenille-Cutting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to machines for cutting woven webs of chenille into strips, which strips of chenille are used in subsequent processes for the manufacture of rugs, curtalus, table-covers, fringe, and other articles made from chenille.

My improvement especially relates to that part of the machine which draws the woven web over a grooved bed or roller and under the cutting-cylinder and delivering the cut strips of chenille into a box or receptacle.

My invention consists in the combination and arrangement, with a chenille-cutting machine, of a series of power-d riven drawing and delivering rollers and a bar having a series of dividing-pins, by means of which the cut strips are divided into groups of strips and delivered into a receptacle, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an end view of a chenille-cutting machine with my'improvements connected. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the drawing and delivering rollers, guide-bar, and pins. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the rollers and guide-bar. Fig. 4 is a top View of the receiving-box. Fig. 5 is a side view of Fig. 4.

Similar letters and numerals of reference in the several views refer to like parts.

Previous to describing my invention it will be proper to state that woven chenille which is cut up into strips for wefts and other purposes is woven to different gagesthat is, from three (3) to seven (7) strips per inch of loom-reed and fabric woven.

It has been customary previous to my inven tion to wind all strips of a web as out on a beam or roller and draw the cut strips from the beam. In so drawing from the beam much waste is made by the chenille strips breaking, especially the strips near the flanges of the beam. With my improvement the web as out is divided in groups or sections and delivered into a box, so that each section of the web may be taken from the box without tangling or disturbing the other sections. I will suppose the web to be cut is thirty-six and onehalf inches wide and seven strip per inch, in all two hundred and fifty-six strips in the web. These two hundred and fifty-six strips are delivered in four sections, each of sixtyfour strips, into a box or other receptacle, which may be, as shown in the drawings, divided into four parts or compartments. This box is taken to a reel that will wind sixty-four hanks at one time, and each section of sixtyfour strips is reeled at one time into sixtyfour hanks. These hanks are one at a time placed on swifts and wound into cops or bobbins for weaving, or the hanks of chenille may be packed, as yarn, for shipping.

The above-described method of handling cut chenille saves much labor, waste of material, and gives better results than the old way of handling the cut strips of chenille.

That others may construct and use myimprovements, I will now describe the same.

Fig. 1 represents a chenille-cutting machine of well-known form of construction, the part 00 being the cylinder carrying the cutters and having my improvements connected thereto. A represents the frame of the machine. A represents an attachment fastened to the frame at thebot-tom, and connected at top by the brace A in the frame A is mounted four v rollers 1, 2, 3, and 4. These rollers can be made of wood, and, if desired, covered with cloth. Roller l is driven, as usual in chenille-cutting machines, bya worm and wormwheel. Roller 1 drives by the cross-belt E roller 3. Rollers 2 and 4 are driven by the friction of rollers 1 and (1 represents the guide-bar, which is made of wood and fastened to the frame A. In this bar is a set of eight dividing-pins d. These pins may be made of wood, but metal is better. box or receptacle, which I make of heavy tin or sheet-iron, and, as represented, divided into four compartments; but the box maybe used without the divisions. D represents the chenille, which as cutis drawn underthe roller 1, and under roller 2 divided into groups or sections by the pins (Z. The sections pass be tween the pins at a a. (See Fig. 2.) They then pass over roller 8, under roller 4, and by rollers 3 and I the cut chenille is delivered B represents the into the box B, from which it is reeled into of delivering-rollers 3 and 4, andvthe set of 10 hanks, as before stated. dividing-pins placed between said pairs of Having, as above, fully described my in venrollers, whereby the cut chenille strips are detion and the best manner known to me for livered in groups, substantially as set forth. 5 using the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is W. T. SMITH.

In a chenille-cutting machine, the combina- Witnesses: tion, with device for cutting the chenille Web, JOHN SHINN,

0f the pair of drawing-rollers 1 and 2, the pair J ESsE K. HIMMELWRIGHT. 

